Comments On: Multiple vehicle-pedestrian accidents over the week leave two dead
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Comments On: Multiple vehicle-pedestrian accidents over the week leave two dead
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Also, the premise that what benefits bicyclists helps to make traffic safer for everybody is also false logic. It isn't a myth that 20 years ago an astute driver could go from any two distant points in SF in 15 to 20 minutes. There were more cars registered in SF then. What has gone wrong is that primary and secondary streets dedicated to moving cars have been tampered with to impede efficient travel.How does bottling up traffic make things safer for anyone? It doesn't. But it plays well to the car hater lobby."Safety first" is a good old slogan that you'll not hear any SF bureaucrat promote. That's because it would mean that that safety would have been a key consideration. It isn't. Engineering studies, traffic surveys, traffic analysis and thorough reports to determine the safety in making major changes to traffic patterns are NEVER done with any degree of competency if they are done at all.Go online and see if you can find one for any SF DPW project over the last 8 years. Then go back another 8 years. Free ice cream to anyone who locates any meaningful traffic study done for a strictly SF city and county job. My money is safe.The cumulative effect of tinkering around with a street here, and another there because the political insider coffee house wants more outdoor space - so let's get rid of two parking spaces in an area in dire need of more, and another restaurant donates to the local supervisor so set them up with a permit for tables to block 70% of the useable sidewalk, and another special favor needs to be paid by turning a stop sign into a stoplight, and that stop sign over her needs to stop free Cable Car travel because Gavin Newsom didn't like to surrender his right of way and wait for Cable Car traffic when he lived on Russian Hill, and so on.............

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Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:02:19 -0700The San Francisco Examiner
@HammerofthePogs: And i'll bet you never got a ticket you deserved. Go down to 850 Bryant Street and ask those standing in that long line on the first floor if SFPD does traffic enforcement. You'd likely hear SFPD does too much traffic enforcement and should be going after real criminals.

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Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:17:53 -0700The San Francisco Examiner
@SFRundown: Can you point to studies that provide data to back up your theories? Otherwise, people will think you're just another smoke-blowing driver.

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Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:28:50 -0700The San Francisco Examiner
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Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:35:44 -0700The San Francisco Examiner
@SFRundown: I have to agree with you and I happen to be one of these people who has stopped driving in the city and is now using a bike to get around-the new bike lanes from 8th street and market to howard street are actually interwoven with car lanes and are going to lead to accidents between cyclists and cars very soon-ninth and howard -turning right onto ninth is a deathzone between cars and cyclists also

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Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:28:40 -0700The San Francisco Examiner
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Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:48:10 -0700The San Francisco Examiner
But it is not the lack of common sense that governs SF. It is a lack of fiduciary responsibility or even trace decency the way this gluttonous SF bureaucracy willing prostitutes itself to maintainits feast of excess.